NCAA Football..breaking or broken?

Story on HBO tonight.

Money has the ability to corrupt. The only thing amateur about major college sports is the players don't get a paycheck (legally). There's nothing amateur about coaches earning seven figure incomes.

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The only thing amateur about major college sports is the players don't get a paycheck (legally).

Scholarship money is a pretty good paycheck...

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Originally posted by Bulldog 19:

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The only thing amateur about major college sports is the players don't get a paycheck (legally).

Scholarship money is a pretty good paycheck...

You've taken my post out of context. I believe you're intelligent enough to understand my post. Otherwise I'll have to assume you believe college athletes are professionals for receiving scholarships.

If you do not understand let me explain. Successful coaches in football and basketball make seven figures a year. The colleges generate millions in revenues. That's professionalism.

I wouldn't argue a college degree is a nice tradeoff for playing college sports. Unfortunately too many D1 athletes in football and basketball don't take advantage of the opportunity to get the degree and don't make it as a pro.

College sports is no different than a reflection of our culture today...if it's not total morally bankrupt, it's one of justification in breaking the rule(s)of the gestapo-like NCAA.

We, collectively as a nation, have embraced the practice of following the letter of the law, not the spirit of the law, giving us a never ending process of more and more laws to circumvent by our own interpretation(s).

In today's environment of law overload and overabundance of lawyers, we are all lawbreakers of one kind or another.

The more laws, the less justice. German proverb